Buy this book on-line CORNWELL**, BERNARD: : SHARPE'S CHRISTMASUK.LOWDHAM,NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.THE SHARPE APPRECIATION SOCIETY,2003. ISBN 9780972222013.
UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn.
[Printed and bound in Canada by Webcom Limited.Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,
but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.
Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,
matt,wrap-around superimposed colour photographic design illustrated covers with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+
fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,
slim,small 8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,8-97pp [paginated] includes an introduction,2 short sories: 'Sharpe's Christmas' and 'Sharpe's Ransom' plus [unpaginated]blank,momochrome photographic title page,blank with copyright details etc.,to its verso,notes on the cover design and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book.
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An uncommon but interesting,unusual ephemeral item for Sharpe collectors and a welcome addition to any collection and to the Sharpe canon in particular.
This edition contains two stories,both written originally for consecutive Christmas editions (1994+1995) of newspapers.
In the title story 'Sharpe's Christmas' Richard Sharpe,commanding the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers,finds himself in a high,hard place with an enemy brigade on one side and a desperate force of Frenchmen fleeing their defeat in Spain on the other.Common sense suggests that he must avoid a fight,but it is Christmastime,and miracles are supposed to happen at the dark heart of the year,and so Sharpe makes a stand,and in doing so ends up giving the enemy an unexpected gift.
The second story,'Sharpe's Ransom',is set in France,after the wars,when old enemies take Sharpe's woman and child hostage. There are local villagers who could help Sharpe,but those villagers dislike him because he is an Englishman who fought against them.So Sharpe has to make some friends,and make them fast,if the Christmas of 1815 is not to turn into tragedy.
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